Tablebenches
These work as tables or benches -- the through, wedged mortise and tennons makes them strong enough to sit on. I build them in micro-production runs of three to six pieces at a time ...few enough to do a lot of handwork, and keep the price affordable for a wide range of people. The shaping of the coopered legs is achieved with a round bottomed hand plane. You can feel the subtle scoops that are the hallmark of this homemade tool.
Coopering is a technique used in barrel making to achieve a rounded shape with narrow flat pieces of wood called staves. These legs start wide and flat and are then sawn into five staves, the edges beveled, then glued back together and hand worked--inside using a plane with a convex bottomand blade, outside using a flat bottomed plane.
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